Posts tagged "The Lonely Island"

Contenders were revealed in a primetime concert tonight hosted by LL Cool J and featuring the comedy of Smokey Robinson ("Don't worry Taylor, Kanye's not here."). As expected, Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Swift, and Beyoncé made out well (they're all up for Album Of The Year along with Dave Matthews Band for their worst album… More »

The man behind the music of 2:30AM is Lonely Islander Jorma Taccone's bro Asa. Creativity Online talked to him about his process and plans for Sunday's MTV Movie Awards. Jorma only paid him $60 for the Emmy-winning "Dick In A Box" beats! (HT TDS.)… More »

Swan Lake, the Canadian power trio of Daniel Bejar (New Pornographers, Destroyer), Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown), and Carey Mercer (Frog Eyes, Blackout Beach), are releasing their second album Enemy Mine at the end of March (3/24, Jagjaguwar). It's an amazing collection that opens with the epic "Spanish Gold, 2044," our vote for… More »

This week's SNL featured music guest TV On The Radio and host The Mean Guy In Wedding Crashers. Over the course of "Golden Age" and "Dancing Choose," TVOTR sounded like they could have used more time soundchecking, but the video for Lonely Island's "I'm On A Boat" and Kristen Wiig's Björk On The Icelandic… More »

In anticipation of INCREDIBAD, Lonely Island's send-ups are arriving rapid fire. This new track, which has the Strokes man lending his pipes, is less "Jizz In My Pants," more "I'm On A Boat," at least via its initial posh, old-money country club setting. The protagonist shows up to the stuffy, boiled-goose-and-sauerkraut-scented affair and… More »

There are exactly two things the world needs no more of: in order, they are fake rap and autotuned T-Pain cameos. End list. Accordingly this cut from the Lonely Island's debut album should be a shitshow, except that it's not, because it's written by SNL's Digital Shorties Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer. Ergo… More »

By now you've heard "Jizz In My Pants," the provocative "West End Girls"-y first single from Lonely Island's Incredibad. The SNL comedy trio's debut album will also feature guest appearances from Julian Casablancas, Norah Jones, and T-Pain."It might be surprising what Norah's singing about," says Islander Jorma Taccone. "For both her and Julian, it'… More »

Andy Samberg pulled Lonely Island writing partner Jorma Taccone on cam (also Justin Timberlake, Molly Simms, and Meadow Soprano) for an orgasmic digital-short song on SNL this weekend. It's the first single from LI's forthcoming album Incredibad (out 2/10). If ever an LP earned a Premature Evaluation, it's one with a song called "Jizz… More »

The Internet got its first listen to "Who's Gonna Save My Soul?" when ?uestlove leaked it (as much as you can call sharing a good friend's track with permission a "leak") to YouTube. It was no simple, static-image YouTube stream, though; Ahmir made a show of both his lip syncing ability (i.e. he knew… More »

Yes, we instantly fell in love with Andy Samberg's latest viral digi short "Iran So Far" while watching it in our hotel rooms after Brandon's wedding a few weekends ago (congrats, B!). Our love so blinding (deafining?) that we missed what eagle-eared commenter gl0tch immediately identified: "Iran So Far Away" was built upo… More »

As long as we're doing videos for Stereogum favorites, we can't not give a shoutout to We Are Scientists, who, in addition to being on Letterman tonight (see previous post) are playing Spin's Year in Music party. If you, like me, couldn't make it tonight, and you, like Leno, won't be watching the… More »

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Last spring the world got a brief preview of Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, the secret Wu-Tang Clan album that will be released in a limited edition of 1 and auctioned off to the highest bidder. That might be all most of us hear from the project for the rest of our… More »

Kanye West debuted his much-leaked single "All Day" at the Brit Awards last week, and now a studio version has emerged. The So Help Me God song's bouncy, bass-heavy beat also features verses from Allan Kingdom and Theophilus London, and a massive "Monster"/"Black Skinhead"-style riff slices through the track from time… More »

Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" was one of the defining jams of summer 2012, but it was the sort of song that screamed "one-hit wonder" from the rooftops. Well, that's not going to be the case. Today, Jepsen comes back with a new single called "I Really Like You," and it is absolute top-shelf… More »

Mumford & Sons have announced the details of their third full-length, Wilder Mind, and it's bound to sound pretty different from the rest of the folk-rock group's output. As As they told Rolling Stone, the band went completely electric for the new album, ditching the folkier elements that catapulted them to fame. "We felt… More »

Kanye West has announced the title of his new album. It will be called So Help Me God, and that's presumably the cover art up above. It appears to be a 13th Century monastic symbol for the Virgin Mary according to this conspiracy theory website Google Image Search turned up. We were just More »